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JIM CAUSLEY AND MIRANDA SYKES PRESENT GHOSTS, WEREWOLVES AND COUNTRYFOLK – THE SONGS AND STORIES OF SABINE BARING-GOULD
Six-time BBC Folk Award nominee Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes of Award-winning Show of Hands and Daphne’s Flight, join John Palmer to celebrate the centenary of Victorian superstar Sabine Baring-Gould, interweaving songs he collected with stories from his best-selling books about Ghosts, Werewolves; Norse Myths and Countryfolk.
Sabine Baring-Gould inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sherlock Holmes’ Hound and Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. He brought Ghostly Aunt Eliza, wretched heroine Mehalah and Norse hero Grettir to life. He mentored folk song collector Cecil Sharp – and a vicar wrote Onward Christian Soldiers. He was a giant of his time. He was a top ten best-selling novelist; the writer of what is still the go-to book on werewolves; author of a nerve-tingling book of ghost stories; storyteller of the Norse Myths of Iceland; compiler of a classic Dartmoor history book and composer of numerous popular hymns. But he says the most important thing he did in his life was to collect songs from the countryfolk of Devon and Cornwall.
Jim, Miranda and John interweave some of those songs with anecdotes from his own astonishing life and stories from his impressive array of books.
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Tue 18th Mar, 2025
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